Valve gear for internal-combustion engines



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vMadinina-ou s.

E l Ae f -P/ 511` I 1 u Georges INV-:NTOR:

Patented Jan. 6,A 1931 PATE oFFIcE Gnoaons iaoutnr, or SEVRES, nmol:

VALVE GEAR FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES p The present invention relates to valve gears for internal combustion engines of the four-stroketype, and it has for its object to devise an arrangement providing for a variable admission of combustible mixture,

and also th partial admission of exhaust gas into the cylinder during the periods of reduced ",admission; such an arrangement is' chiefly applicable to aviation engines, Whose operating conditions vary with the altitude. More specifically, the invention has for its object to provide a double valve control, each control member acting upon a distinct admission valve and/or a distinct exhaust valve, and is adapted to assume variablepositions with reference to the actuating member therefor.

An embodiment of the invention is fully described in the followingfdescription, with reference to the accompanying drawings, which,are given'` by way of example, and in which: l Y Fig. 1 is a vertical section through both admission valves of acylinder of a fourstroke engine. f

Fig. 2 is a vertical ,section throughl the exhaust valves.

Fig. 3 is a sectionalelevation of the control means with variable angular setting.

Fig. 4 is a diagram illustrating the operation of the` engine when running at reduced admission with partial admission of exhaust `gas.

v f Fig. 5 is. a diagram illustrating the operal v tion of the engine when running at full admission and exhaust.

Referring to the drawing, A and B are two distinct camshafts, C, C are admission valves (Fig. 4l), D, D are exhaust valves (Fig. 2) eachshaft A, B controls a respecf tive' admission valve C and a respective exhaust valve D (Fig. 3). E is the eng'ine cylinder. F is a driving pinion keyed to the driving shaft and engaging driven pin ions C, having helical internal utes, cooperating with corresponding helical flutes of thecamshafts A-B respectively. K' def` notes one of the forks adapted to vslide the pinions G alongl'the fluted portions of camshafts A, B.

Application led March 6, 1980, Serial No.

433,581, and in France March 30, 1929.

u The operation is as follows:

( The oscillation of each fork K ,pcauses a translation of the corresponding pinion Gr.l

and imparts to the corresponding camshaft A or B a movement of rotation with reference to pinionT, due to the helical flutes H.

Since the motlons of camshaft's A and B are distinct from each other, and take place in reverse directions', the following.` resultsv may be obtained:

(a) an admission limited to l/g/'stroke ofl Y the piston (Fig. 4); both admission valves C open at the same instant at 1, 3 and close at the same instant at 2, 4: this reduced admission may be combined with a partial exhaust, that is, with a partial admission of. exhaust gas during a short period in the, admission stroke, by delaying the closure of with a complete exhaustbf the engine by the two valves D, the valve of shaft A opening at 5 and closing atx, andthe valve f shaft B opening at 7 and closing at 8, as usual.

(c) all intermediate positions, for intermediate adjustments of fork K.

In this manner, theI present invention provides for a reduced admission or under-feeding, with an optional admission of exhaust four valves, i. e. two valves C and two valv D, would require four camshafts, or, in the case of three valves, i. e. two valves C and one valve D for instance, would require three camshafts.

The construction of the mechanism for the an ular adjustment of the camshafts may be di erent from the above, and in particular, the flutes H ma be rectilinear, whereby ythe pinions F and would have helical teeth.

Having now described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a valve gear, two admission valves, two exhaust valves, two camshafts, each coacting with one admission valve and one exhaust valve, control means for said camshafts and means for angularly displacing said camshafts in reverse directions, with respect to said control means, whereby one exhaust valve closes materially beyond the upper dead centre and both admission valves open considerably beyond the' upper dead centre in one angular setting of said camshafts.

In testimony whereof I have signed my namevto this specification.

GEORGES. BOULET. 

